Joy Augustine
Artist Info
Bio: <p>Straddling with documentaries, commercials, ad-campaigns, television programming and feature films for over 30 years - Producer, Writer and Director, Joy Augustine who hails from the picturesque state of Goa in India, is a filmmaker in Mumbai's Bollywood Industry best known for his Hindi feature films Goonj (1989) and Tere Mere Sapne (1996).</p><p>Joy traces his roots to theatre before moving on as an assistant to the renowned documentary and wildlife filmmaker duo Naresh & Rajesh Bedi (winner of the Green Oscars). Subsequently, he moved on to be the first assistant director to Jalal Agha. He was also the associate director on several ad-campaigns that included the Indian Railways ad campaign of 1985, which featured India's iconic ace sprinter P.T. Usha. Over the years, Joy led and directed several commercials and ad-campaigns for premier agencies like McCann Erickson, Creative Eye, Akva Marketing to name a few - for leading Indian conglomerates Mahindra & Mahindra, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd. and others.</p><p>Collaborating with Sahara Media Communications Ltd, Joy headed a team of innovators, to design and develop path breaking 3D cinematographic components for television broadcast and programming; and is the co-inventor of the technology (patent pending). Joy is notably credited for identifying talented actors like Arshad Warsi, Chandrachur Singh, Priya Gill, Simran, Vaibhavi Merchant , Aarti Agarwal, Karan Nath, Howard Rosemeyer amongst others.</p><p>Joy has earned two nominations:</p><p>*Best Writer for Goonj (1990) at the Indian Filmfare Awards</p><p>*Best Debutant Director for Tere Mere Sapne(1996) at the Screen Awards</p><p></p>
Born: October 28, 1964 in India
